Example Sentences

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As with the Mississippi, we have dammed or leveed most of the world’s major rivers.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019

But upstream, Turkey and Iran have dammed their own waterways in the past two years, further weakening the southern flow, so a salty current from the Persian Gulf now pushes northward and into Iraq’s rivers.

From Washington Post

Men have dammed the Nile in many places, but still it drifts sluggishly for half the year leaving much good land parched, and then spews its silt-laden floodwaters, wasted, into the Mediterranean.

From Time Magazine Archive

He sometimes ran a purple ribbon through his typewriter and gushed where he should have dammed.

From Time Magazine Archive

They have dammed it to keep its waters back; but further down, the stream leaps over the obstruction and forces its way onward.

From Rabbi and Priest A Story by Goldsmith, Milton